Philadelphia, PA -- Pass the peas please! How often do we hear our children say this? According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System survey of adolescents, only 21% of our children eat the recommended 5 or more fruits and vegetables per day. So not very many children are asking their parents to "pass the peas," and parents are resorting to other methods to get their children to eat their vegetables. One popular method is hiding vegetables. There are even cookbooks devoted to doing this and new food products ...

Rising pop talent Cara Quici has been snagging well-deserved attention within the industry lately. This incredibly talented singer's recent photographic tribute to stars Madonna and Debbie Harry has been highlighted in hundreds of press outlets, getting Cara Quici some notable national recognition (http://www.cnbc.com/id/46412030/Pop_Star_Cara_Quici_Pays_Homage_to_Madonna_Debbie_Harry). Cara Quici is a strong vocal talent, making her a rare find in today's pop music market. Armed with her solid singing skills, stunning beauty and charismatic personality, Cara is primed ...

London, Ontario - There is good news for the 27,000 plus people around the world who donate a kidney each year. A study which followed living kidney donors for 10 years found that they were at no greater risk for heart disease than the healthy general population. Led by Dr. Amit Garg, a researcher at Lawson Health Research Institute and nephrologist at London Health Sciences Centre, the results provide important safety reassurances to donors, their recipients and health care professionals. In the general population, there is a strong link between reduced kidney function ...

FINDINGS: Devising a novel method to identify potential genetic regulators in planarian stem cells, Whitehead Institute scientists have determined which of those genes affect the two main functions of stem cells. Three of the genes are particularly intriguing because they code for proteins similar to those known to regulate mammalian embryonic stem cells. Such genetic similarity makes planarians an even more attractive model for studying stem cell biology in vivo. RELEVANCE: Stem cells may hold the promise to regrow damaged, diseased, or missing tissues in humans, such ...

Living in a poor neighborhood was linked with worse chronic pain for young adults, according to a study by the University of Michigan Health System, but young black patients faced difficulties with pain management no matter where they lived. With the study, the University of Michigan researchers have opened a new frontier in addressing chronic pain in America. The results were published in a recent issue of The Journal of Pain and showed where a patient lives, its structural barriers, affluence, and access to resources such as pain medicines, play an important role ...

Website: http://www.myspace.com/cheyannewelch Rising pop country singer Cheyanne has the industry buzzing with excitement for her newest single, "Perfectly Imperfect." This charming, charismatic singer is gaining the support of fans and impressing critics from all over and has now released the official video for "Perfectly Imperfect!" Currently working on her full album, Cheyanne has responded to the demand of fans for more with the release of her newest video. "Perfectly Imperfect" is a catchy, candid tune that carries a unique, fresh ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reduced damage from a heart attack by 50 percent by enhancing a protective protein found in mice and humans. The study, in which mice were bred to make a supercharged version of the protein focal adhesion kinase, or FAK, appeared March 1 in the online edition of the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. "This study shows that we can enhance existing cell survival pathways to protect heart cells during a heart attack," said Joan Taylor, PhD, associate professor in ...

Rochester Institute of Technology's fall 2011 Advanced Digital Media Class was hired by the BioCommunications Association (BCA) to develop and produce video tutorials for amateur medical and biological photographers. The 14 students in Biomedical Photographic Communication Assistant Professor Tom Zigon's class worked in four teams to produce video tutorials on photographing reflective subjects, exposure control, and a topic of their choice including: • Digital file formats and compression • Techniques for maintaining consistency in medical imaging • Sample preparation ...

WASHINGTON -- Centuries of overexploitation of fish and other marine resources — as well as invasion of fish from the Red Sea — have turned some formerly healthy ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea into barren places, an unprecedented study of the Mediterranean concludes. Research by an international team of scientists designed to measure the impact of marine reserves found that the healthiest places were in well-enforced marine reserves; fish biomass there had recovered from overfishing to levels five to 10 times greater than that of fished areas. However, marine "protected" ...

DALLAS -- UT Southwestern Medical Center cardiologists have uncovered how a specific protein's previously unsuspected role contributes to the deterioration of heart muscle in patients with diabetes. Investigators in the mouse study also have found a way to reverse the damage caused by this protein. The new research, available online and published in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, was carried out in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph Hill, director of the Harry S. Moss Heart Center at UT Southwestern. "If we can protect the heart of diabetic patients, ...

The Improv Comedy Club's "Up Yours" Comedy Contest picks Don Barnhart for a spot in the finals in search for America's Next Great Comedian. Barnhart took second place in the Improv Comedy Club's "Up Yours" online contest battling it out with the front-runner in fan votes earing him a spot in the live finals. The contest was open to everyone and votes came from fans around the world using social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter. The top three vote leaders have secured spots in finals with the judges picking 3 wild-card entries for the ...

VIDEO: This movie was created using GOES-13 visible and infrared satellite imagery from Feb. 28 at 1245 UTC (7:45 am. EST) through March 1, and shows the progression of the cold... Click here for more information. A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite animation of that weather system that triggered at ...

Join the excitement as the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas host their sixth annual Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas Golf Tournament on Thursday, April 26, 2012 at Lantana Golf Club in Lantana, Texas. The event will help provide continued support for North central Texas youth being served by the Boys & Girls Clubs of North Central Texas. The four-person scramble tournament will kick-off at 1:30pm with a chance to play 18-holes of golf with local celebrities. It will feature a post-tournament awards dinner, live auction, raffles, and numerous ...

http://www.everydayslipcovers.com Furniture Slipcovers For All Types of Furniture. To celebrate the opening of the web site EverydaySlipcovers is offering a 10% discount on all its inventory for orders over $100 for the month of March and in addition free shipping on all orders over $300. EverydaySlipcovers has two goals for the company and both are centered around the customers. The first goal of EverydaySlipcovers.com is to meet the needs of people looking for quality slipcovers at reasonable prices. The site carries slipcovers for the everyday needs as well as the ...

If someone has trouble remembering where the car keys or the cheese grater are, new research shows that a memory training strategy can help. Memory training can even re-engage the hippocampus, part of the brain critical for memory formation, the results suggest. Researchers at Emory University School of Medicine and Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center have been investigating memory-building strategies for people with MCI (mild cognitive impairment). The techniques used in the study were known to be effective for healthy people, but it has been uncertain how they could ...

Satellite imagery from NASA's Terra satellite today, March 1, shows Tropical Storm Irina is slow to leave the coastline of Madagascar. When NASA's Terra satellite passed over Tropical Storm Irina on March 1 at 0715 UTC (2:15 a.m. EST), the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard captured a visible image of the cyclone. At that time the center of the storm was still over the waters of the Mozambique Channel, but just off the central west coast of Madagascar. The storm's center was near 19.7 South and 43.7 East. Clouds from the outer reaches of the storm ...

Spring is a time of year for change, and DefySupply.com has showcased this fact with its excellent new line of modern patio furniture sets. Releasing nearly 100 outdoor sofa sets and patio dining sets, defysupply.com has continued its strategy of vast product selection. Unveiling nearly 100 new patio sofa sets and patio dining sets, Defy Supply has continued their mission of giving customers as many options as possible. Defy Supply is one of the web's leading discount furniture e-retailers, and has long been a destination for home furniture and outdoor furniture ...

The American Cancer Society estimates that 44,000 new cases of pancreatic cancer will be diagnosed this year and that 37,000 people will die from the disease. These are not strong odds. A new drug, rigosertib, allows pancreatic cancer cells to rush through replication – and then stops them cold, killing them in in the middle of a step called M phase. Healthy cells that don't rush are unharmed. Data from a phase I clinical trial of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer and additional solid tumors recently published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research shows the strategy ...

The fundamentals of financial planning are the same for men and women, so why do women need custom-tailored financial advice? "Not only do women earn less, live longer, and take an average of 11 years out of the workforce, studies show women are also less confident about financial planning," said Julie Riddell of Riddell Financial, who will present a free financial seminar for women titled "Keeping Your Money Safe in These Turbulent Times." The seminar is scheduled for Tuesday, March 20, at Riddell Financial in the SunTrust Bank building, 3400 ...

Almost three years ago a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) was performing an experiment in which layers of gold mere nanometers (billionths of a meter) thick were being heated on a flat silicon surface and then allowed to cool. They watched in surprise as peculiar features expanded and changed on the screen of their electron microscope, finally settling into circles surrounded by irregular blisters. The circles varied in diameter up to a few millionths of a meter, and in the center of each was a ...

Xena Vallone Realty, a Sarasota, Florida-based residential and commercial real estate firm, has opened a Pinellas County office at 13575 58th Street N., Suite 200, Clearwater, FL 33760. The brokerage that opened three years ago with the belief that boutique firms offering personalized service would be the ones to emerge from the ruins of the housing collapse, is ahead of the curve once again with a solution to the declining inventory of affordable waterfront properties in the Sarasota area. "Buyers who cannot find what they are looking for in Sarasota and Bradenton ...

PULLMAN, Wash.—A Washington State University researcher has demonstrated that a variety of environmental toxicants can have negative effects on not just an exposed animal but the next three generations of its offspring. The animal's DNA sequence remains unchanged, but the compounds change the way genes turn on and off—the epigenetic effect studied at length by WSU molecular biologist Michael Skinner and expanded on in the current issue of the online journal PLoS ONE. While Skinner's earlier research has shown similar effects from a pesticide and fungicide, this is the ...

Golnesa "GG" Gharachedaghi, the self-proclaimed Persian princess of Bravo's upcoming "Shah's of Sunset," is excited to be partnering with Hair Solutions by M.E., Inc., to form a new corporation, GMLD LLC, in promoting, GG's Extensions by Effortless Extensions. Born and raised in Los Angeles, , GG has spent most of her 29 years concentrating on beauty and fashion. GG started out in the industry as an assistant to a celebrity stylist. She then worked as a stylist on the set of "The Simple Life" with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie and has worked ...

Millions of people suffer from Parkinson's disease, a disorder of the nervous system that affects movement and worsens over time. As the world's population ages, it's estimated that the number of people with the disease will rise sharply. Yet despite several effective therapies that treat Parkinson's symptoms, nothing slows its progression. While it's not known what exactly causes the disease, evidence points to one particular culprit: a protein called α-synuclein. The protein, which has been found to be common to all patients with Parkinson's, is thought to be ...

Rochester, MN, March 1, 2012 – Many health care professionals (HCPs) have easy access to controlled medications and the diversion and abuse of drugs among this group may be as high as 10%. Controversy surrounds the safety of allowing addicted HCPs to return to clinical practice while undergoing medical treatment with opioid substitution therapy such as buprenorphine. In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Heather Hamza, CRNA, MS, of the Department of Anesthesiology, Los Angeles County Medical Center at the University of Southern California, and Ethan O. Bryson, ...